RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [ny][.06].23-25. Crambe maritima (Sea kale) / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.118. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and John van Wyhe, edited by John van Wyhe 11.2022. RN2
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR209.3 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).
Draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 383.
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Sea Kale
8º 30'
9º 20 up & to left 1
10 15 up & to right
11. 50 an atom down & to right 2
12 53 an atom up 3
2 a little down
3. an atom down 4
4º an atom. right & down
5 some way to left & down
6 up & to right 5
7 15 back to left
9º in middle of old marks 6
10. 25 do
23d do
New Plant
7º. 52'
9. 3 risen much & to R.
10 vertically up
11 to right down
12 same course
1º to left or back
2 27 vertically up
2. 55 to right & up
4º to left
4º. 55' up & to R.
5 . 34 up
6. 20' up.
7º 10 fallen!
8 55 risen again
24th
6. 50' ⨀
8. 5' down
8. 50 down
9. 45 down & to R.t
10. 45
11º 45 risen more str L.
12. 45 down & to right
2º much down, same course
3 — same course
4 good way up
5' do
6º do
7º 15', do
9º
10º
25' 6º 40
8º
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unattractive to
latifolia offers
me, as it is
With
=mophilous spe K
possibility of a
on the visits
by his valuable
flowers are vis
many more
inconspicuous
flowers which
of self-fertilisa
become extinct
1873. p. 433.)
in forming a
=treme difficulty
are rarely or
above given
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